Bryonia Alba - Homeopathic
According to Dogs Naturally Magazine, Kennel cough is exactly what it’s called: it is a cough in your dog, much like a human cold. It is almost always self limiting and can last anywhere from a day to a couple of weeks. The virus is passed easily between dogs.
Coughing in dogs can be difficult to detect if you’ve never heard it before: often, it sounds like your dog is choking or has something in his throat. Normally, the cough is dry and short in duration. Symptoms of kennel cough are normally limited to the upper respiratory tract.
Homeopathy can be very effective for treating kennel cough.
Drosera is the primary remedy for kennel cough and should be considered for a dry, hacking cough which may be worse when the dog is laying down.
However, we have often seen Bryonia cure the cough immediately especially when the patient is irritable, very thirsty and unwilling to move. Thus we typically have both on hand for chronic or acute coughing. Try one and if you see results, stop. If not, try the other.
According to the Veterinary Materia Medica:
Bryonia Alba
Homeopathic Remedy for:
Kennel Cough — Canine
Tracheobronchitis
Dry Cough - in dogs, together with fever and thirst in all
species.
Canine kennel
cough with uncontrollable
fits of coughing, which follow one after another. The severe spasms can lead to
attacks of choking with cyanosis.The dry spasmodic cough is deep and hoarse and
may trigger retching and sometimes bleeding from the nose. The pulse may be
rapid and irregular.
Keynotes
- The larynx is extremely
sensitive to touch. The collar can bring on an attack, so can barking or
touching the dogs throat.
- In people it is used to treat
whooping cough and tuberculosis, and in dogs it has a particular role in the
treatment of tracheobronchitis (kennel cough).
- These animals may be
irritable, and anxious at night and when alone.
- DURING COUGH VOMITING OF
WATER, MUCUS, AND OFTEN BLEEDING AT THE NOSE AND MOUTH
- PROLONGED PERIODICAL FITS OF
RAPID, INCESSANT, DEEP BARKING OR CHOKING COUGH
Modalities:
>Better:
Amelioration from lying still; being left alone, lying on painful side, seeking cold, and from remaining quiet.
< Worse:
Towards morning, from
warmth, slightest pressure (even from wearing a collar), in the evening, eating,
also from
any motion, hot weather, exertion, touch except pressure where pain occurs.. Cannot sit up; gets faint and sick. Bryonia is known as the "worse with motion" remedy, so if your dog coughs more when moving, this may be the right remedy for him or her.
This homeopathic product has not been evaluated by the
Food and Drug Administration for safety or efficacy. FDA is not aware of scientific evidence to support homeopathy as effective. The theory of homeopathy is based on the work of Dr.
Samuel Hahnemann in the 1800s and are not accepted by most modern medical
experts.
